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White tigers are cute, but they aren't a seperate species, and they aren't "rare". They're just normal, orange tigers that were inbred repeatedly to produce a defective gene. This gene makes the coat white, but it also causes a myriad of painful health problems, such as poor eyesight, club feet, cleft palates, spinal deformities and defective organs.
The inbreeding results in many defects, early deaths, and still births. The white coat is a double recessive gene, so 3 out of 4 cubs born through this inbreeding have normal coloring but suffer the same defects and are referred to in the trade as “throw away tigers.” As such, they are often killed at birth because only the white tigers are the big money makers. And, because none of these cats are purebred (they are all crosses between Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers), they serve no conservation purpose. It's cruel and irresponsible to deliberately allow the breeding of white tigers.